Grandma’s Old-Fashioned Bread Pudding with Vanilla Sauce!

the Ingredients:

• 4 cups (8 slices) cubed white bread
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup raisins
• 2 cups milk
• 2 eggs, slightly beaten
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1 tablespoon vanilla

Sauce Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 tablespoon vanilla

DIRECTIONS 


Pudding:

1. Heat oven to 350°F.
2. Combine bread and raisins in large bowl.
3. Combine milk and 1/4 cup butter in 1-quart saucepan. Cook over medium heat until butter is melted (four to seven minutes). Pour milk mixture over bread; let stand ten minutes.
4. Stir in all remaining pudding ingredients.
5. Pour into greased 1 1/2-quart casserole.
6. Bake for forty to fifty minutes or until set in center.

Sauce:

1. Combine all sauce ingredients except vanilla in 1-quart saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring from time to time, until mixture thickens and comes to a full boil (five to eight minutes).
2. Take off the heat and stir in vanilla.
3. To serve, spoon warm pudding into individual dessert dishes; serve with sauce. Store refrigerated
4. 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar